Yes, tax. If they start thinking of websites as property, how long before people are taxed for them, like in MA where you pay property tax on your car?
Indeed. That was the point Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were trying to make. This story is supposed to refute 2001, but no one who's making the argument has read the books?
(Nevermind that in the book version of 2001, it was all about Saturn. He fixed that in the sequels).
That's not generally true. When you encode an ATM card with a PIN (something you can change if it's compromised, not like your iris), the PIN is encoded on the card, which allows you to use other institutions' ATMs and to get cash at the grocery store and so forth.
And the average slashdotter should know that any data that's transmitted from one place to another can be retained at any stop along the way. Not such a big issue when you can change your PIN, but once your iris is compromised, you're shut out of the system for life.
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Bless her for even trying.
See, the thing about Slashdot is, you never really have to comment, because if you scroll down far enough, someone's already said it.
You would think that, but it didn't stop the British from imposing a Stamp Tax.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that upon seeing the headline.
Yes, tax. If they start thinking of websites as property, how long before people are taxed for them, like in MA where you pay property tax on your car?
Indeed. That was the point Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were trying to make. This story is supposed to refute 2001, but no one who's making the argument has read the books? (Nevermind that in the book version of 2001, it was all about Saturn. He fixed that in the sequels).
And the average slashdotter should know that any data that's transmitted from one place to another can be retained at any stop along the way. Not such a big issue when you can change your PIN, but once your iris is compromised, you're shut out of the system for life.
Do you think it could be a trap? Given the gov't's of-late interest in total information, they just got a whole list of names for their file.